Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 10:00:27 +0400 (MSD) From: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" <asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru> To: Robert Clark <Robert.Clark@pii.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFSD limitations? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905040953150.13954-100000@crydee.sai.msu.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990503153105.7215B-100000@rio.pii.com>
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On Mon, 3 May 1999, Robert Clark wrote: > If you have to worry about drive letters, is the client running DOS? (Or > something DOS derived?) Yes, DOS clients and OS/2, my workplace. DOS-derived, you are right :-) > If so, the samba may be a good fit for you. I believe it will allow all of > the things you've asked about. I use Samba for exporting to Windoze machines, and it does not have those limitations and in general works fine. But I can't use it for DOS machines with PC/NFS, and too lazy at the moment to try SMB-capable OS/2 component. > > > > 2) NFS mount does not seem to go through local filesystems. E.g., I have > > > > another disk mounted on /vol1/ftp/.1 and want export of /vol1/ftp to > > > > transparently "bleed" through to /vol1/ftp/.1 ? > > > > > > NFS mounts do not cross mountpoints. You'll have to mount that yourself. > > > > Pity. That results in two additional drive letters :-( Ugly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sergey Ayukov Sternberg Astronomical Institute http://www.ayukov.com Moscow, Russia http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/index-asv.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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